I have been working on a few technical things over the course of the weekend; first meshing my home wireless network by letting two routers form a single network, and after I was done, setting up MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) for my Airport Extreme, which is the border gateway.
MRTG produces pretty graphs of networks statistics, and I integrated them into my Leopard desktop using a space station icon I am working on, a bit of Photoshopping and Geektool 2.1.2 (since the website is down, I’ll host it here for the interested). Geektool, in turn, is a preference pane that lets you show console output or images on your desktop, refreshed at a certain interval.
I’ll let the result speak for itself (click for larger version over at flickr);
If there’s any interest for it, I’m willing to write a nice how-to for setting all of this up easily. Drop a comment if you want to see such a post.
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Sunday, 4. November 2007
Looks really nice.. would love to see a how to.. :) Don’t have an Airport Extreme, would it still work?
Sunday, 4. November 2007
Øyvind, it depends; it’s only possible if your router supports SNMP (check the internet, manuals, or web interface – these three are not mutually exclusive, even if there is no trace of it in your manual or web interface, do check on the ‘net).
Sunday, 4. November 2007
A to-do would be awesome!
Sunday, 4. November 2007
I’d definitely be interested.
Sunday, 4. November 2007
I’d love to get the network stats graph — I have a linux box as a node on my network exclusively so I can play around with things like this. ;-)
(And yeah, I use an Airport Extreme, the new model.)
Monday, 5. November 2007
You can change the colours of the MRTG graphs, might make it blend in with the background.
Monday, 12. November 2007
Yeah. I’d like to have a “how-to” post.
And BTW – is GeekTool 2.1.2 support unicode?
Monday, 12. November 2007
NilColor, you might want to check up on your reading. The how-to has been posted for several days now.
Monday, 10. March 2008
I’d like to see a how-to if you want to do it…. Great stuff.
Sunday, 28. December 2008
wow thanks for archiving GeekTool..
anyway, congrats for the new blog design ;)